Today's Top Technology Stories

1. Amazon launches Echo Spot, an Alexa-enabled smart alarm clock, in India

Combining style with functionality, Echo Spot's compact and customisable display allows customers to set and view alarms, see the time, weather, or song titles at a glance, and experience vibrant sound with its directional speaker.

2. Apple's inaccurate AI news alerts shows the tech has a growing misinformation problem

Last week, a feature recently launched by Apple that summarizes users' notifications using AI pushed out inaccurately summarized BBC News app notifications claiming British darts player Luke Littler had won the PDC World Darts Championship.

3. Tonal 2 Is Here To Help You Crush Your Fitness Goals

Tonal's next-generation digital functional trainer is essentially a gym-in-a-box, with 280 possible exercises, all powered by digital weight that lets you fine-tune your workouts on the fly (without having to find free weights or change plates).

4. 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera S Now Has 463 HP but Loses the Manual Option

The new 992.2-gen Carrera S also has more standard features, but the coupe's base price has risen over $15K to $148,395. By Eric Stafford Published: Jan 8, ...

5. 'Squid Game' event in “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6:

Players can earn the ...

6. Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'

Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

7. Efficient scaling of large language models with mixture of experts and 3D analog in-memory computing

When combined with the MoE architecture, this hardware, utilizing stacked NVM devices arranged in a crossbar array, offers a solution to the parameter-fetching bottleneck typical in traditional models deployed on conventional von-Neumann-based ...

8. Uncovering Clues to a Natural Gene-Editing Technique

Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) are found in the genomes of microorganisms across the globe — from the arctic permafrost to Yellowstone's hot springs and the human gut. DGRs are able to reverse-transcribe RNA back to DNA in a form of natural ...

9. Bezos' Blue Origin is nearing liftoff on the 1st flight of its newest, biggest rocket

A massive new rocket developed by Blue Origin, the private space firm founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is on the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and ready for its maiden flight as early as Friday, the company has confirmed.